Hey mac....ditto on the fun, competitive juices and good pitchers. Little known fact.....George was a pitcher. Or tried. My first year playing was on a rec. league team. Just a bunch of young baseball players who passed the hat on starting a fast pitch team. Well, my first experience with George was when we entered the big memorial day tourney down at Hawthorne park....you know the one where the old south field had a left field porch about 140 feet. And our first game was against a commercial(sponsored)team. Well, we were all excited and terrified until we saw George on the mound. Needless to say it became a track meet and we ended up 10 running them. Going through the obligatory handshake line as we were laughing and smiling George in no uncertain terms made sure to let us all know we accomplished nothing because they suck. That was my first exposure to George. The rest is history and we could talk for days on end about him. Anyway, back to topic.......fastpitch by nature is much more competitive and intense....but I only heard of one incident like with an ump being assaulted. Have you seen or heard of things like this?
Anyone know this slow pitch softball player?
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Hey mac....ditto on the fun, competitive juices and good pitchers. Little known fact.....George was a pitcher. Or tried. My first year playing was on a rec. league team. Just a bunch of young baseball players who passed the hat on starting a fast pitch team. Well, my first experience with George was when we entered the big memorial day tourney down at Hawthorne park....you know the one where the old south field had a left field porch about 140 feet. And our first game was against a commercial(sponsored)team. Well, we were all excited and terrified until we saw George on the mound. Needless to say it became a track meet and we ended up 10 running them. Going through the obligatory handshake line as we were laughing and smiling George in no uncertain terms made sure to let us all know we accomplished nothing because they suck. That was my first exposure to George. The rest is history and we could talk for days on end about him. Anyway, back to topic.......fastpitch by nature is much more competitive and intense....but I only heard of one incident like with an ump being assaulted. Have you seen or heard of things like this?
No clue. I thought that the only required equipment for slowpitch softball was a cooler, ice, and ****** beer.
If you see some of the Facebook comments by some of his family members they totally think he was in the right because the umpire said something to him first. You can't make this **** up.
Wow. If the ump said something inappropriate, then report him and get him fired. Hit him in the wallet rather than knocking him down, breaking his hand, and getting arrested. You get zero sympathy in that case. Have fun never playing in a slow pitch league again in the city limits.
I don't care what someone said to you, you don't hit a literal senior citizen.
This literally happened to me this year with the player this thread is about. Granted I admittedly am not the greatest slow pitcher ever when I do pitch, but I usually give you something you can get your bat on most at bats as I am just trying to get a strike in there and not doing anything fancy with it like some guys do. His team was already up over 10 runs and he made it obvious he was not going to swing at a 3-1 ball by stepping clear up in the batters box facing out at me with bat on shoulder so I didn't give him the pleasure of watching me try to plop one right in for a strike then potentially crank the next meatball I threw him out of the park so I just threw one way inside right at his feet so he could take his walk. I hate when the "softball guys" try to show you up like that after sometimes letting a hittable pitch go by even if it is not a textbook strike as I have seen these same guys send a pitch way inside on their hands out of the park and clear the fence easily too. I rarely take a walk in slowpitch, I'm usually swinging at the first pitch I see if it's close enough to get the bat on it. You have to be WAY off the plate where I can't take a decent hack at a pitch for me to take a walk and even then if my team is up comfortably I take an intentional swing and miss just to give the pitcher a chance to throw me one I can swing at.
The 1 park in the metro I will never play again at is Walker Johnson in Urbandale. I don't know what they have for leagues anymore because it was so long ago but we once got stuck playing in their upper tier men's league on Wednesdays that had teams full of guys like this that all have the fancy pants, jerseys, and bat bags and play tournaments every weekend and we went something like 1-17 against them. To make matters worse the league director was a douche too and scheduled teams most nights for these split double headers at 6 and 8 or 7 and 9 so we also had an hour between ass kickings to lick our wounds. His reason behind it he told me was "because these teams usually play weekend tournaments and like to watch each other player between their games." I told him we don't and we'd rather just get our 2 games over with and go home. Well when the next schedule came out after I asked him we coincidentally got even more split games like that in the lower tier league than the previous season - nearly every night actually. That was the last time we ever played there and I told the guy when he asked me the following spring why we were not coming back that if his intention was to sell more beer by doing that he wasn't making money off us because we were just going back to the parking lot to drink and sneaking our own beers into the complex too.
That was my thought too, be an adult and just walk off the field without incident and go get someone who is in charge at the complex to handle the situation. We had an incident with an ump last year when he was trying to tell one of my guys his bat was illegal and could not use it despite the fact it had the league's sticker on it that verifies it is a legal bat and had the ASA stamp on it too. Between innings we even pulled up the list of approved and banned bats on a phone and showed him and he still didn't believe us and just said "well one of us is wrong." My player got a little upset and said "yeah it's you!" I told my guy to shut up and we'll just file a complaint with the league director later so just grab another bat in the dugout. That was the end of it although the ump I think was still a little pissed at us because any close play at a base didn't go our way the rest of the night and I was pitching that night and he called several pitches balls that landed right smack in strike zone but we didn't escalate anything with him and just kept playing. Talked to the league director the next day and he apparently had already heard about this situation and assured me they were addressing it with the ump and the ump association as we were not the only team who had complaints about him recently. Sent him a photo of the bat this ump would not allow and he agreed the ump was wrong.
So there is a civil way for these guys to handle issues if they wanted to instead of pushing down an old man even if he possibly was in the wrong too and acting inappropriate. Never seen anyone in a game I've played in though get into it with an ump over a foul ball call let alone it get to a situation where it could have gotten physical so there is no excuse for the behavior this guy showed. In the end this is just a recreational league so there is nothing other than egos and self pride on the line whether you win or lose. I like a fun game where the score is competitive and not a blow out and at the end of the night I don't go home pissed if we lost. I got to be outdoors for a few hours and drink a few beers with some friends and unwind from a day in the office and that is what it is about for me.
Or just anyone in general. There just aren't many good excuses for hitting or kicking someone unless you're a boxer, MMA fighter, or vigilante crimefighter. Captain Neckbeard doesn't appear to be any one of those three things.
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Is it ok to hit a figurative senior citizen?
So the head of officials for that league was on KXNO the other day and was at that game. Said he witnessed everything and thought the ump was handling the game and situation fine. The league official sounded like a pretty straight and narrow guy and I doubt the ump would have been reacting badly in front of his boss. I'm thinking the stories of the ump talking **** are a bunch of crap.
Hahahaha!!!!!!!!! We had a rec D League team for West Des Moines or Waukee 3 years ago. Our tallest dude was 6'3 and it's the same thing you are saying. We went 0-8 losing by an average of probably 30 points per game. We aren't terrible either lol. Actually the UNI Bohannon played against 1 game. Wasn't even fun.
I'm an umpire and I've worked with other umpires who I know can be jerks. I heard a few talking about how they were going to "toss someone today" at the beginning of a girls softball tournament. And sure enough, he tossed a few people that weekend. Usually these are the guys that are going to flip out if anyone questions their calls.
So I know it's not always just the player/coach that can be a problem. But you have to handle things correctly if you have an ump you want to complain about. There are plenty of guys I know who've been asked not to return to specific ball parks. Mostly because they are terrible umps, but sometimes because they reacted poorly to being questioned.
I think I found footage of this guy's son.
I'm sorry. As a coach, I'm not supposed to encourage any behavior like this. But I freaking LOVE this.
